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This Bullocks Oriole is sitting on the branch of a burned out Laurel Sumac bush. The Chapparral plant community is a fire adapted community, meaning it needs fire to thrive and be healthy. If fires occur in normal intervals they do not get so hot as to burn the root crown of the bush. Shoots then sprout from the base of the burned out bush after the fire. You can see a new lush bush in the background. Orioles are another of our summer visitors.